Back a year ago, I set my 2015 goodreads challenge, in 2014 I planned to read 52 books, one book for each week of the year. And I surpassed that and read 65, thats 13 more books than I planned. So with this in mind, I set my goal at 75, I thought that if I read only 10 more books this year I could get that goal and then this year I could set my goal as 100!!! I wanted to be able to say that I read the total of a hundred books in one year so badly. You see many peoples Goodreads challenges and they are reading 100, 200, 300 + books a year and you start to wonder how that is even possible, how do they find the time, what am I not doing... But then I look back at my year and realised a lot of things have happened and although I haven't read all the books I have wanted to read, I have read some great ones...
So this year I only was able to get 50% through my Goodreads challenge and I feel really disappointed in all honesty. I read 42 out of 75, I read even less than last year! Between finishing my dissertation, my last year of university, working more hours than ever before, I have had to adjust my life and reading has taken a back step... only a little. I am still getting used to how I juggle my new hours, and with a new kitten, and even christmas... things have gotten just a little bit more jumbled up. I am hoping the more I get into a routine in 2016, the more time I can make for reading.
BUT... I am proud of and loved so many of those 42 books I read this year. I FINALLY read GAME of THRONEs... only the first one... but all the same... I am now on the road of the A Song of Ice and Fire Series!
I finally read Angelfall and loved it so much that I read the entire series and it is now amongst one of my favourite series.
Here are a few of my Upmost top favourite books of the year:
This is All by Aidan Chambers
Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight and Heir of Fire by Sarah J Mass
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Remix by Non Pratt
The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
Angelfall (Penryn and the end of days trilogy) by Susan E.E
Queen of Babble Trilogy by Meg Cabot
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
These aren't all the books I loved but a large proportion of them. All of these I would highly recommend to!
It's been a good reading year, not my best and I think both my reading and my youtube and blogging has suffered this year too, I hope to improve on this in 2017...
So next year... well it's 2017 already... so...
I hope to read 52 books, I am keeping the goal the same and will increase it if I read more than planned and I am ahead of my reading schedule.
What do I want to read/look forward to?
I want to read a lot of my TBR pile as it is huge and I have a lot of books that I haven't touched that have been sitting around for years and I want to see what they are like. I also want to reduce the number of books I keep and I only keep my favourites as my house is quite small and I need all that room for all those new books I want to buy and read! I want to read the next book in ASOIAF series... is it a Feast for Crows? I have just heard that Meg Cabot is writing a sequel to the meditator series which i adored when I was younger. I want to read another Jane Austen novel, and at least 3 other classics. I want to try reading a few different genres. I want to re-read quite a few of my favourites as well.
I am hoping 2016 will be my best reading year yet and I can't wait to see what books are out there for me. What are your reading goals for 2016 and what are you most looking forward to?
